HYMNS for the Nursery (1806) and Hymns for Infant Minds (1809), both by Ann and Jane Taylor, deserve mention, as early attempts to reach the child-level in simple verse. Besides these works the sisters collaborated in Original Poems (1805), and Ann, afterwards Mrs. Gilbert (17821866), published separately Hymns for Sunday-School Anniversaries (1827) and Hymns for Infant Schools (1827), Jane (17831824) publishing separately Display: a Tale (1815) and Essays in Rhyme (1816). Jane also contributed to the annuals and to the Youths Magazine, from which a number of her essays were reprinted as the posthumous contributions of Q. Q. in 1824. An authorised edition of the Hymns was published by Mrs. Gilberts son, Josiah Gilbert, the artist, in 1886. Of these, those of Mrs. Gilbert are the stronger, the best being Great God, and wilt Thou condescend, Jesus, who lived above the sky, and Lo, at noon tis sudden night. Of Janes hymns, There is a path that leads to God and When daily I kneel down to pray are perhaps the best. Her Essays in Rhyme are interesting and well written, her poem The Squires Pew having a pathos in it which has not altogether evaporated with the years. The following is from the pen of Mrs. Gilbert.